[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/12/14

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Aug 11 20:49:37 PDT 2014 

    "Colleen Hanabusa cites 'irregularities' in Hawaii vote"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64223>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 7:45 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64223>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/colleen-hanabusa-irregularities-hawaii-2014-primary-109936.html?hp=l2>

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    "Can the G.O.P. Ever Attract Black Voters?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64221>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 7:29 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64221>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jelani Cobb NYT oped. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/opinion/can-the-gop-ever-attract-black-voters.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0>

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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>


    "Legislators end quick session with new map but challenge is likely"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64219>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 7:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64219>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://tbtpics.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/legislators-end-quick-session-with-new-map-but-challenge-is-likely/2192498>from 
Fla.

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>


    CA Supreme Court Removes Anti-Citizens United Advisory Opinion from
    Ballot, Leaving Option of It Appearing on a Future Election Ballot
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64216>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 5:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64216>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ViaAt the Lectern 
<http://www.atthelectern.com/divided-supreme-court-takes-anti-citizens-united-proposition-off-the-ballot-for-now/>comes 
news ofthis 
order.<http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2083887&doc_no=S220289> The 
concurring opinion of Justice Goodwin Liu is quite interesting.  I have 
placed both Justice Liu's concurring opinion and Chief Justice 
Cantil-Sakauye's interesting response below the fold.  Justice Liu talks 
about the purpose of the initiative process, and how allowing the people 
to vote on advisory opinions put on the ballot by the legislature would 
blur the lines of accountability between the people and legislature. In 
response the Chief writes: " By the majority's action today, the 
Legislature will be deprived of knowing in a timely manner where the 
voters stand on the issue, perhaps influencing what further steps the 
Legislature will take and how much effort it would invest in the 
underlying endeavor. The stay also deprives the voters of the ability to 
express their views on the subject at the time when the issue is being 
hotly debated, as opposed to two years from now, on the ballot of 2016."

Continue reading? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64216#more-64216>

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    Plaintiffs in NC Voting Case Still Deciding Whether to Appeal Denial
    of Preliminary Injunction <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64214>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 3:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64214>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So reports AP 
<http://hosted2.ap.org/NCGOL/NC/Article_2014-08-11-NC--Voter%20Laws/id-1db430b6e02a4b46a984e0bb1cefb522>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


    "North Carolina ruling shows weakness of voting rights protections"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64212>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 3:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64212>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Zachary Roth reports 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/north-carolina-ruling-shows-weakness-voting-rights-protections>for 
MSNBC.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


    "Waiting for the Next Watergate" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64210>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 12:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64210>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Byron 
Tau<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/campaign-finance-reform-watergate-109865.html>for 
/Politico/: "Reformers in Washington are looking for a few good scandals."

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    "Judge throws out Cuomo challenge to Teachout"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64208>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 12:19 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64208>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Capital New York reports 
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/08/8550525/judge-throws-out-cuomo-challenge-teachout>.

The trial court opinion ishere <http://bit.ly/XdmT6t>.

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    "Proposal could create more voting districts anchored by minorities"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64206>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 9:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64206>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT 
<http://www.latimes.com/local/countygovernment/la-me-voting-rights-20140811-story.html>:

    Minority groups seeking more influence in local government would
    have a potentially powerful new tool at their disposal under a
    proposed expansion of the California Voting Rights Act.

    The way Los Angeles County --- among others jurisdictions --- has
    drawn districts for elected officials could face a legal challenge
    in California if a bill, introduced by state Sen. Alex Padilla
    (D-Pacoima), becomes law.

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    "Independent Spending in State Elections: Vertically Networked
    Political Parties Were the Real Story, Not Business"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64203>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 9:36 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64203>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Campaign Finance Institute 
<http://cfinst.org/Press/PReleases/14-08-11/Independent_Spending_in_State_Elections_-_Vertically_Networked_Political_Parties_Were_the_Real_Story_Not_Business.aspx>:

    There has been a marked increase of debate in the months since the
    Supreme Court's April 2014 decision in /McCutcheon v. Federal
    Election Commission/ over the relationship between interest group
    spending and the power of political parties. A just-published
    article in THE FORUM: A JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN CONTEMPORARY
    POLITICS speaks directly to some of the assumptions underlying that
    debate. The article -- entitled /Independent Spending in State
    Elections, 2006-2010: Vertically Networked Political Parties Were
    the Real Story, Not Business/ -- is based on a fresh analysis of
    data supplied by the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
    This analysis challenges public expectations about business power
    that were prevalent in the immediate period after Citizens United.
    It also challenges more recent assumptions that seem to see parties
    and interest groups as locked in a zero-sum battle for power.

    The article's co-authors are Keith E. Hamm, Edwards Professor of
    Government, Rice University; Michael J. Malbin, CFI's Executive
    Director and Professor of Political Science at the University at
    Albany, SUNY; Jaclyn J. Kettler, Rice University; and Brendan
    Glavin, The Campaign Finance Institute.

    A final pre-publication version can be read here
    <http://www.cfinst.org/pdf/state/Hamm%20et%20al_IndSpendingState%20Elections_web.pdf>.
    The article's abstract appears below.

    *ABSTRACT:* This article examines independent spending in state
    elections before and after the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in
    /Citizens United v. FEC/. We find that the decision did not have
    much of a direct effect on business spending, despite public
    expectations.... [T]he major growth was not in the business or labor
    sectors, but in the networked organizations of political parties ---
    and most particularly the national organizations of state elected
    and party officials. Contrary to some contemporary views, these
    developments cannot be understood as a displacement of within-state
    money from parties to interest groups. Instead, national party
    organizations were operating across state lines, deciding whether to
    contribute to formal party committees or their party allies as local
    circumstances might dictate. This complex movement of money belies
    any theorizing that would treat a decline in the proportional role
    of formal party spending as equivalent to a zero-sum increase in the
    power of non-party interest groups. Rather, we see the pattern of
    independent spending as part of a larger story of change in American
    political parties. These changes now include vertically networked
    parties operating across levels of jurisdiction, alongside the
    horizontal networks receiving attention in recent scholarship.

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    "Federal Judge Hears Ohio Early Voting Argument"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64201>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 9:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64201>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Toledo Blade/reports. 
<http://m.toledoblade.com/Courts/2014/08/11/Federal-judge-hears-Ohio-early-voting-argument.html>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting Rights Act 
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    MayDay PAC Supports Rep. Walter Jones, Who Says Impeach, Don't Sue,
    President Obama <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64199>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 9:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64199>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Seehere 
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mr-jones-shalalalalalalala>andhere 
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/11/1320599/-Mayday-and-the-myth-of-the-Republican-reformer#>.

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    Robert Post Interviewed by SCOTUSBlog on Citizens Divided Book
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64196>

Posted onAugust 11, 2014 8:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64196>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/08/ask-the-author-robert-post-citizens-divided/>.

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    "Cal Students' Response to Berkeley's Historic Offer of a Council
    Seat: Thanks, but No Thanks" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64194>

Posted onAugust 10, 2014 9:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64194>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/California Magazin 
<http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-08-09/cal-students-response-berkeleys-historic-offer-council-seat>e:/"Remember 
in 2012 when the City of Berkeley decided to redraw its electoral map so 
that students would be better represented at City Hall?"

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